A massive thank you to everyone who came along to ‘Curating Kerry James Marshall’ last week 🎉 A packed lecture theatre, great conversations, incredible energy and an unforgettable surprise visit from Kerry James Marshall himself! 🌟

Gail Day & Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula, 'Amphibious Realities'. 30 Jan, 5:30–7:30 pm Join this @marxisminculture.bsky.social seminar on Allan Sekula, the award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, photographer, filmmaker and theorist. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Spring programme for the London Group of Historical Geographers is now live. We start again on 13 January with Thermal Horizons: Energy and Infrastructures of British Global Power, c. 1830-1900. In person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. Free and open to the public. All welcome, please register.

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Join us for the Past Imperfect seminar with Jack Hartnell (Head of Research, National Gallery, London) discussing his new book Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image 🩹📚 In conversation with Bob Mills followed by Q&A 💬 Signed and discounted copies available! 👉https://shorturl.at/amiRW

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New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Edward Gillin (@ucl.ac.uk)’s review of @richardtaws.bsky.social (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social)’s book _Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France_, pub 2025 @mitpress.bsky.social Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social

Stellar new issue of Oxford Art Journal in honour of @carscott.bsky.social feat. essays by Alex Potts, Thomas Hughes, Steve Edwards, Katie Scott, Clare Pettitt, Jeremy Melius, Susan Siegfried, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, T.J.Clark…and of course Caroline herself! academic.oup.com/oaj/issue/48/1

On Thursday 2nd October (5.15pm GMT), I am giving a research paper, hosted by HannahHalliwell of University of Edinburgh. It’s online and I believe anyone can register to attend. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

As part of the Art History Festival 2025, the Association for Art History is hosting a standout series of special in-person events in London. They’re all free, but make sure you book.

London foxes 👌 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Our map of cold spots in provision of humanities and social sciences courses and student numbers across the UK has been updated with the data for the 2023/24 academic year. Explore for yourself here: buff.ly/2x7yE5K

Next week! www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Thank you Kirsten Tambling for this first review of 'Time Machines'! @mitpress.bsky.social

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Not at all concerning to learn that Universities UK are partnering with a company to sell an AI product that offers automated feedback on student work. Who needs staff?

Sometimes it feels like my whole career has been a chain of gatherings where UK & US academics trade stories of the particular kinds of stress & grief & short-sightedness that shadow our work. I want better for all of us.

Yes, but how close?

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A great day to recall that on March 18, 1871, the great experiment of the Paris Commune began. All remains possible.

Great opportunity for a funded p/t MA with us plus curatorial assistantship in collaboration with Tate Britain. Pls share!

Ghost dog. Atget, "Galerie Vivienne, 2ème arrondissement, Paris" Eugène Atget, collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.

Just heard the sad news that this weird and beautiful brutalist home at the University of York is scheduled for demolition. Part of the university's ongoing attempts to disavow its own modernist heritage. c20society.org.uk/building-of-...

I’m a professor at a public university, a proud union member, and a fierce believer in the value of a humanities education for my students. I felt every word of this essay by Peter Civiello in my bones. READ IT. SHARE IT. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

‘there is now a worry that REF2029 will enable a different injustice: that institutions can hold onto the outputs of staff they have sacked, while making it harder for them to gain new academic employment because they are no longer linked to the work they created.’ This must be changed.

University College London's art museum, home to works by Paula Rego and J.M.W Turner, secures temporary home after academics protest buff.ly/JiV3b0F

Celebrate the launch of @richardtaws.bsky.social 'Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France' with us! 📖 We'll be joined by Prof. Sanja Perovic (KCL) to explore coded messages in art & the impact of telegraphy on public space. 📅 24 March, 6-8pm 👉 Sign up: shorturl.at/LhjpP 👈

IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception 6-7 March, UCL Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The book now has a cover! (And some very kind blurbs by @ayates.bsky.social & @andydenninghist.bsky.social) Check it out if you want to learn about how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential artifacts of fin-de-siècle modernity. More info at mitpress.mit.edu/978026254980...

Join us for an evening with Professor Dame Sonia Boyce, award-winning artist & academic, as she presents “Crop Over: A Talk” - exploring Caribbean carnival traditions, resistance, and legacies of British slavery 💬 🌟Open to all🌟 👉Register here: shorturl.at/0p4cZ%F0%9F%...

Our next seminar is Allison Stielau (@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social) on "Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War" 10 March, 5:30 (UK), @ihr.bsky.social & Zoom All welcome! Register for link: www.history.ac.uk/events/treas... #EarlyModern #Skystorians Image from: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Hello from CAA--all books are 20% off! @mitpress.bsky.social

Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

Lecturer in Early Modern Art History (1400-1800) - AC2505RXLS University of St Andrews - School of Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU715/l...

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley www.theguardian.com/education/20...

One tiny, private act of resistance: reading long, old books. Feels subversive to a) pay sustained attention to b) something that can't be monetized.

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Just out! Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France mitpress.mit.edu/978026204918...

📢 UCL History of Art is now accepting applications for the MA History of Art program! 🎨🖼️ Don't miss your chance to be part of this prestigious course. Apply by January 31, 2025: shorturl.at/7xrUo #UCL #HistoryOfArt #MAProgram #ArtHistory #UCLAdmissions #ArtLovers